Fruit Preservation Quotes

My family always spent the warm months bottling fruit for storage, which Dad said we'd need in the Days of Abomination.

I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

The apricot's fleetingly short harvest - only a few weeks long - explains the urge to save the season in a jar. But cooked fruit, no matter how expertly preserved, can never measure up to the flawlessness of its fresh counterpart.

I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.

There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.

I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum jam every summer. I brought Memphis to Malibu.

Here's a bit of Discovery Channel for you - apples don't last forever. They can stay fresh for a long time, especially when refrigerated, but definitely not from December into the month of March.

Tart and sweet, tinged with the faint scent of almonds and flowers, the Blenheim is the ideal apricot for both eating and preserving.

I make jam, and oh my God, it is so delicious.

It's all about the fruit. A crumble should maintain the integrity of the fruit.

I grew up surrounded by generously yielding plum trees, and as a family we were constantly on the hunt for inspired ways to use up the lovely plums before age got the better of them.

Apricots are the most private fruit, loath to reveal their secrets.

Cranberries contain a massive amount of natural pectins. They will gel all on their own, which is why you can basically make cranberry sauce out of filling.

I couldn't unpeach the peaches.

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.